Honor your loved ones with a Habitat Greensboro Holiday Card

Thank you for your interest in purchasing Habitat Greensboro Holiday Cards. To purchase your cards online, please complete the form below and we will mail your cards directly to you! Or, if you would like for us to address and mail your cards, email a list of recipients to Kelley Elmore at [email protected].

It’s past the date of December 14, so we cannot guarantee delivery by Christmas if ordering printed cards at this time, but we are still accepting orders.

If you prefer one of the three e-card options, you will still order through the button below and will have the option to select the card design you would like at the end of the order process.

Thank you for your support and Happy Holidays!

holiday lights
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Artist: Ann Whaley

Since she was a child growing up in Greensboro, Ann Whaley, a resident of River Landing at Sandy Ridge, has enjoyed coloring, drawing, and creating various arts and crafts projects. While she doesn’t consider any of her work to be “fine arts”, she enjoys art and says, “it gives [her] energy.” With inspiration from an online course in mixed media, Ann immediately thought of a house scene with mixed media, including the paper security-tinted lining of business envelopes, and cardstock from cereal boxes when presented with the challenge of creating a holiday card design for Habitat Greensboro. This year’s beautiful design is the result of that inspiration and was selected as our 2024 annual print holiday card.

welcome home snowmen
e-card option

Artist: Nancy Paxton

The miniature quilt  “Welcome Home”  is a family who, with pride and love for the home they helped build, welcome family and friends.

Nancy Paxton resides at River Landing at Sandy Ridge with her husband Bob.  She served as the Vice President of Nursing and other clinical departments with several hospitals before joining and ultimately retiring from Moses Cone Hospital/Cone Health. A past volunteer activity was serving on the family selection committee for Habitat.

the house that love built
e-card option

Artist: Roberta Ihrig

Roberta graduated with a B.A. from the University of Central Arkansas where she majored in Commercial Art.

For 25 years Roberta worked as a Graphic Artist for companies such as:  L’Eggs, Sara Lee Knit Products, Gilbarco Veeter Root, and Ciba-Geigy, now known as Syngenta.

After retiring from Ciba-Geigy, she and her husband moved to West Jefferson, NC where she owned and operated a sign company. Roberta continued to apply her commercial art skills making and applying vinyl signs for commercial vehicles, buildings, and electric signs.

As a retired resident at River Landing at Sandy Ridge, Roberta held the position of curator of their Art Gallery for eight years. Now she happily paints for her own enjoyment.

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Artist: Mary Ervin

Born in rural Wake County, as the daughter of tenant farmers, moved often wherever her father’s work led them, whether it was chicken farming, tobacco farming, or even serving as a church sexton. Mary’s parents never owned a house and lived in tenant or rental homes. Though the houses weren’t theirs, they were always filled with love. Despite the uncertainty of where Mary lived, love made each place feel like home.

Mary later met and married a “city boy” from Charleston, South Carolina, who couldn’t tell a corn stalk from a tobacco stalk—but she knew he was the one. They soon moved to Jacksonville, Florida for the Navy, and then later to South Carolina and Mississippi, where they built and bought their first home. In 1982, Mary returned to North Carolina, settling in Winston-Salem, where they lived for nearly 40 years. Mary earned an Associate’s degree in Paralegalism and worked for several law firms, while also volunteering on Habitat for Humanity builds through her church. Through experiences in different homes—whether tenant, rental, or owned—Mary learned that love truly makes a house a home. That experience was Mary’s inspiration for the cards’ design and Roberta provided the artwork.